CHATTESWORTH, (Derbyshire) 6 m. from Chesterfield, and 114 from London, is a seat of the D. of Devon, by the r. Derwent, in the Peak, and reckoned one of its wonders, being a noble stately seat; for the description of which, we refer the curious to Mr. Cotton, Mr. Hobbs, and Dr. Leigh, who says, that, like the sun in a hazy air, it gives lustre to the dusky mountains of the Peak. The stones of this magnificent house were all dug out of quarries hard by, as was the marble, of which here are some curious tables and chimneypieces, which is finely veined, and yet so common, that the people in some places build their houses with it, and in others burn it, as they do lime-stones, to manure the earth. The old house was begun by Sir Will. Candish, or Cavendish, of Cavendish in Suffolk, in the R. of Q. Mary, and finished by his Lady, afterwards Countess of Shrewsbury; but it was pulled down, and a new one built, by William D. of Devon, grandfather to the present, with such elegance and grandeur, that the sublimest oratory, or poetry, can give but a faint resemblance of either its situation and structure, or its fine water-works, and curious paintings, by the celebrated Varrio.